About

Welcome to Cole Codes! I am a Silicon Valley-based independent web and graphic designer, and casual illustrator. I have experience with designing for both Wordpress themes, as well as non-Wordpress sites; all of my final coding is mobile responsive. I also have a decade experience working with Adobe Photoshop. I really enjoy combining the technical aspects of coding with the artistic aspects of graphic design.

I currently work with the West Valley College digital media department, as the student assistant. I have fully coded, from scratch, the current West Valley Digital Media site, and have created flyers for the department.

MY ORIGIN STORY
I started with fansite design, designing graphic headers and coding themes, mainly Wordpress and Coppermine themes, for myself and for friends, which gave me many years of wonderful coding and Photoshop experience, all of which I am self-taught. However, a lot of my work over the years has been lost to the sands of time. Will we ever be able to recover them? Perhaps they will seemingly forever be as lost as the library of Alexandria.

SKILLS

HTML / CSS

95%

Wordpress theme coding

80%

Mobile-responsive coding

90%

FTP / cPanel

95%

Designing layouts

95%

Adobe Photoshop

95%

Adobe Illustrator

50%

Autodidact / quick learner

100%

HAS TAKEN CLASSES IN:

Traditional Photography

Web Development

Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator

Java programming

RESUME

Portfolio - Web Design

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Web Design | West Valley Digital Media

Web Design (Homepage Layout Mockup) | Cilker School of Art & Design

Portfolio - Graphic Design

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50th Anniversary Logo - West Valley College Park Management

Flyers - West Valley College Digtial Media

Artist's Book (My Japan)

Social Media Graphics - West Valley College Fashion

Typography

Vector Art

Portfolio - Gallery

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This is a gallery of some additional skills I have that I can incorporate into a design, including photography, photo colorization, and digital art.

Photography (Edited)

Digital Drawings

Freebies

Wordpress Themes

Photoshop Brushes

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Web Design | West Valley Digital Media

The West Valley Ditial Media website needed an update in its coding, so I coded a new layout from scratch and incorporated existing and updated information. It was required I use the school's colors of orange, navy blue, and white, and use the Digital Media logo provided to me by the department. I used simple sans-serif fonts to make reading easy on the eyes and incorporated a lightbox for the image samples.

Web Design | Cilker School of Art & Design

The Cilker School of Art & Design is a school specialized in art, design, music, dance, and theater at West Valley College. The school is still new and finding its footing and because of that, the client requested for a text-only logo. It was required that the Cooper Hewitt font and it's variations (i.e. bold and thin) were used, and the school colors of orange and white were used.

For the layouts, I did not want the design to focus on any one department at the school, so I tried to implement different ways to equally showcase the programs offered at Cilker. As this just was a mockup for the homepage, I wanted the focus to be on the school as a whole and once one dives deeper into a specific program, the layout can shift slightly, such as with showcasing a banner with the title of the department.

50th Anniversary Logos | West Valley College Park Management

The WPA (Works Progress Administration) has a history with National Parks. During the WPA movement, a number of Park Management posters were created to influence people to visit and view these natural sites in the USA. The head of the West Valley College Park Management department presented the illustrative WPA style as a starting point for inspiration for the 50th anniversary logo.

As the school is located in California, the client requested the following to be featured on the logo: the mountains, the desert, and the redwoods. Also requested to be on the logo were the words: "West Valley College Park Management" and "50th Anniversary." He wanted the design to be in earth tones, such as browns, greens, and blues.

After my initial sketches, I brought four designs to life in Illustrator, keeping in mind the illustrative style of the WPA. After meeting up again with the client, two of my designs were chosen for refinement. He wanted the years (1970-2020) to be on the logo, as well as the West Valley College logo. He also liked the idea of a badge-shaped design, which I implemented with my bear logo.

Logo Sketches and Prototypes

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Flyers | West Valley College Digtial Media

I was tasked with creating new flyers for classes in the West Valley College Digital Media because there were new classes and information. I used the colors of the school and existing logo of the program to create the new flyers. The app design flyer features an iPhone vector I created. The images below show the front and back side of the flyers, side-by-side.

Flyers

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Artist's Book | My Japan

For a class I was in, I was tasked to create an artist's book, which could be about anything I wanted it to be. As I am half-Japanese and my mother was in Japan at the time visiting her mother, I decided to make my book about my view of Japan, as my experience with Japan is very different than any others. The book reads right-to-left, as that is how books are read in Japan. Photographs of the final printed work will be added soon.

My Japan

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Social Media Graphics | West Valley College Fashion

West Valley College had a fashion show, for which I made a few social media graphics. The first two were more fun, general graphics for Instagram, while the third is for information and the series of events that occurred, and for the latter, I was to use the school orange, the logo provided, and that specific font.